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Re: Bitrate tax.

  • To: Piet Beertema <
    >
  • From: Paul Bryant <
    >
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:53:48 +0100

At 16:01 12/06/96 +0200, you wrote:
>    The Belgian Minister for Telecommunications came up with the idea
>    of introducing a "bitrate tax" on information transmission.
>Perhaps IPng provides a "tax paid" field in the IP header? :-)

Nice to see you still alive and kicking. I have a better solution. Use
compression repeatedly on a message until it is reduced to zero bits and
then send it at zero cost. Paul.
>
>
>	Piet
>
>
Paul Bryant - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK
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